关于父亲节的4个事实

时间:2022-06-20 07:14:11

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1. Washington was the first state to celebrate Father's Day.
第一个父亲节是在美国华盛顿庆祝的
 
In 1909, Spokane resident Sonora Smart Dodd was listening to a Mother's Day sermon at her local church when she had the idea to try and establish a similar day to honor the hard-working fathers of the community. Dodd was the daughter of a widower1 and Civil War veteran named William Jackson Smart, who raised six children on his own after his wife died during childbirth.
1909年,美国华盛顿州斯波坎市居民索诺拉·玛特·多德正在本地教堂听母亲节讲道,忽然想到可以试着创立一个类似的节日来纪念社区里辛苦劳作的父亲们。多德的父亲是一名丧偶的内战老兵,名叫威廉·杰克逊·斯玛特,他在妻子死于分娩后独自养大了6个孩子。
 
She contacted local church groups, government officials, YMCAs, businesses, and other official entities2, hoping to gather the community to recognize fathers around the state of Washington. The campaign Dodd embarked3 upon would eventually culminate4 in the first statewide Father's Day celebration in 1910.
她联系了本地的教堂团体、政府官员、基督教青年会、企业和其他官方组织,希望能让社区居民聚在一起为华盛顿州的父亲们庆祝。多德发起的这项运动最终促成了1910年华盛顿州的第一个父亲节庆祝活动。
 
2. That Father's Day takes place on the third Sunday in June just happened by accident.
父亲节定在6月的第三个周日纯属偶然
 
While Father's Day always takes place on the third Sunday of June now, that date was actually a compromise after the original turned out to be unrealistic. Dodd's goal was for the holiday to be observed on June 5 to land on her father's birthday, but when the mayor of Spokane and local churches asked for more time to prepare for all the festivities involved, it was moved to the third Sunday in June, where it remains5 today. Officially, the first Father's Day celebration took place on June 19, 1910.
尽管现在父亲节总是在6月的第三个星期日庆祝,但其实定在这个日子是因为在原定日期庆祝不现实才做出妥协的。多德最初的目标是在她父亲的生日6月5日庆祝父亲节,但是斯波坎市长和当地教堂请求给他们更多时间来准备父亲节的一切庆祝活动,因此父亲节就改到了6月的第三个星期日,并一直延续至今。官方记录显示,第一个父亲节的庆祝活动是在1910年6月19日举行的。
 
3. Roses were originally a big part of the Father's Day celebration.
玫瑰花原本是父亲节庆祝活动的重头戏
 
The first Father's Day included a church service where daughters would hand red roses to their fathers during the mass. The roses were also pinned onto the clothing of children to further honor their fathers—red roses for a still-living father and a white rose for the deceased. Dodd also brought roses and gifts to any father in the community who was unable to make it to the service. This gave birth to the now-nearly-forgotten tradition of roses as the customary flower of Father's Day.
第一个父亲节的庆祝活动包括一个教堂礼拜仪式,女孩们在做弥撒时会将红玫瑰亲手送给自己的父亲。孩子们还会把玫瑰别在自己的衣服上来纪念父亲——红玫瑰纪念还在世的父亲,白玫瑰纪念已逝世的父亲。多德还为社区里无法来参加礼拜仪式的父亲们都买了玫瑰花和礼物。于是,父亲节送玫瑰花就成了传统,不过这一传统现在几乎都被遗忘了。
 
4. Father's Day is a big day for the humble6 greeting card.
父亲节是送贺卡的大日子
 
Father's Day means big business for the greeting card industry. The holiday is the fourth most popular day for exchanging cards, with approximately 72 million flying off shelves annually7. Hallmark—which has been producing Father's Day cards since the early 1920s—boasts more than 800 different designs for dad, with humor cards accounting8 for 25 percent of the cards sold. The NRF estimates that cards account for 58 percent of all Father's Day gifts—whether the person honors dad only with a card or includes it with a larger gift.
对贺卡行业而言,父亲节是生意非常红火的日子。父亲节在最流行送贺卡的日子里排行第四,每年父亲节可卖出近7200万张贺卡。贺曼公司从上世纪20年代初就开始生产父亲节贺卡,该公司声称共有超800种不同设计,其中幽默贺卡在卖出的父亲节贺卡中占到了25%。全美零售商联合会估计,贺卡占所有父亲节礼物的58%,其中既包括作为唯一父亲节礼物的贺卡,也包括在送更大礼物时附赠的贺卡。

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1 widower fe4z2a     
n.鳏夫
参考例句:
  • George was a widower with six young children.乔治是个带著六个小孩子的鳏夫。
  • Having been a widower for many years,he finally decided to marry again.丧偶多年后,他终于决定二婚了。
2 entities 07214c6750d983a32e0a33da225c4efd     
实体对像; 实体,独立存在体,实际存在物( entity的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Our newspaper and our printing business form separate corporate entities. 我们的报纸和印刷业形成相对独立的企业实体。
  • The North American continent is made up of three great structural entities. 北美大陆是由三个构造单元组成的。
3 embarked e63154942be4f2a5c3c51f6b865db3de     
乘船( embark的过去式和过去分词 ); 装载; 从事
参考例句:
  • We stood on the pier and watched as they embarked. 我们站在突码头上目送他们登船。
  • She embarked on a discourse about the town's origins. 她开始讲本市的起源。
4 culminate Zyixr     
v.到绝顶,达于极点,达到高潮
参考例句:
  • The celebration of the centenary will culminate with a dinner.百年庆典活动将以宴会作为高潮。
  • Everyone feared that the boundary dispute between these two countries would culminate in a war.人人都担心,这两国间的边境争端将以一场战争到达顶点。
5 remains 1kMzTy     
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
参考例句:
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
6 humble ddjzU     
adj.谦卑的,恭顺的;地位低下的;v.降低,贬低
参考例句:
  • In my humble opinion,he will win the election.依我拙见,他将在选举中获胜。
  • Defeat and failure make people humble.挫折与失败会使人谦卑。
7 annually VzYzNO     
adv.一年一次,每年
参考例句:
  • Many migratory birds visit this lake annually.许多候鸟每年到这个湖上作短期逗留。
  • They celebrate their wedding anniversary annually.他们每年庆祝一番结婚纪念日。
8 accounting nzSzsY     
n.会计,会计学,借贷对照表
参考例句:
  • A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
  • There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。

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